scolopax

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A Linnean genus of Scolopacidæ, formerly including most of the scolopacine and some other birds, but now restricted to the genus of which the European woodcock, S. rusticula, is the type: in this sense synonymous only with Rusticola. The birds most frequently called snipe belong to the genera Gallinago and Macrorhamphus. See snipe.

It was a calm still evening and warm, the wood-cock (scolopax) chirruping high up in the air, gently descends by spiral circular tract, and alights on the humid plain: this bird appears in Pennsylvania early in the spring, when the Elm and Maple begin to flower, and here the scarlet Maple, Elm and Alder began to shew their flowers, the yellow Jasmin just ready to open its fragrant golden blossoms, and the gay Azalea also preparing to expand its beauties.